The Westminster Dog Show is mutt-see TV: Hailey the Boston Terrier Beagle licks owner Karen Profenna enthusiastically ahead of the 138th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Hailey will be entering the Mixed Breed category, which has been reinstated for first time since the earliest days of the show.

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Tubes tied up: A woman waits for the next train at Waterloo Station in London during a 48-hour strike by underground workers
that shut down several parts of the subway system, causing major delays for commuters.

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Firefighters battle a deadly blaze at the Iron Mountain warehouse in Buenos Aires. Nine first-responders were
killed in the fire, which destroyed an archive of corporate and banking industry documents.

Why not both? Amur tigers at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan., don't know whether to lick or maul the snowman that appeared overnight in their enclosure.

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Sochi ski lift: A Russian woman in a traditional folk dress talks on a cell phone next to an elevator decorated with a poster of Norwegian biathlon champion Ole Einar Bjoerndalen at a Sochi Winter Olympics facility.

Beware of Greeks in windows: A bug-eyed man seems to be pressing his face against a window pane in this graffiti
mural in Athens.

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Arturo needs a cooler clime: Arturo, the only polar bear in Argentina, swims in his enclosure at a
zoo in Mendoza. Activists are lobbying to transfer the old bear to a zoo in Canada so he can be spared the
Argentine heat in his golden years.

The UK's mistreated lighthouses: Tuesday it was the Newhaven Lighthouse that was getting battered by a monster wave, now it's the lighthouse in Porthcawl, Wales, that's being pummeled. High tides combined with gale force winds
and heavy rain caused flooding along the southern coast of Wales.

Pleased to meet Your Royal Sinus: Kayla Akbasak, about 1 year old, squeezes Charles' nose during the Prince of Wales' visit with her parents,
Mehmet and Burcin, and her twin, Lara, in Tottenham, London. The couple lost their apartment home when rioters
set fire to the Carpetright building and the flats above it in August 2011.

Robocop has nothing on LEGO cop: A grimacing Liam Neeson hams it up during a screening of "The LEGO Movie" at AMC Empire 25 in New York City. The
Northern Irishman provided the voice of the Bad Cop/Good Cop, the movie's tough guy villain with a split
personality.

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Hazards of a fruit diet: A wildlife caretaker releases a rehabbed Gray-Headed Flying Fox in Sydney's Centennial
Park. Each year Australian volunteers rescue thousands of winged species and reptiles caught in anti-bird netting
thrown loosely over fruit trees.